Scotland 2013

    On the way to the Orkney Islands: Looking out the bus window to the west coast mountain terrain, glacier gouged glens, covered in green, waterfalls draping themselves like silver ribbons from  top to bottom like a Christmas Tree. Amazing Grace played with bagpipes and drums makes it complete. Life is good. Skarbrae is a 5000 year old village on the north of the island, they even recycled, my kind of people.     

    Purple is the color of Scotland, easy to see why as flowers of all kinds are purple.  Nice to see a beautiful part of your land honored as the national color. The other color is grey: houses etc. made from local stone. Scarecrows are called Tatty Boogles and are found in normal and unusual places. 

    No trees on the Orkney Islands. 

     Monument to the original Braveheart-William Wallace. It is a tower of power. Beautiful castle of Ben Robbie and a picture perfect one at the shore of Loch Ness.  Seems that Nessie might just be an Ore Fish, sure looked like it when I looked it up.  Oh, and the dragon fly seems to be the inspiration for the story of Peter Pan, written by local J. M. Barrie.
   A word about the much awaited Military Tattoo in Edinbourgh.  Wow, it lived up to all that I had imagined.  Who does pomp better than the UK? No one.  So many tricked out pipers and all the drums and marching. Makes one go weak at the knees.  I did not realize that there were other countries represented. In fact the Mongolian National band was there, funny as I just came from there.  More throat singing, awesome.

     Boutique cinema has leather Laz-E-Boy chairs, tables and free Pringles.

    Anything goes as far as hair color and dress. 

    Jenners is a dept. store in Edinbourgh was first 'shopping center'

    A fort is wood and a castle is stone.

    Dunedin is old name for Edinbourgh.

    Argyle means triangle.

    Loch means dark hole in Galic
      List of some famous inventors:
CRT for TV: John Logie Baird
Phone: Alexander Graham Bell
Trans Atlantic Cable: Wm. Thomson
Beta Blockers: James Black
Chloroform: James Young Simpson
Colors in light: James Clerk Maxwell
Cloud Chamber: CTR Wilson
Pneumatic tire: Robert Thompson + Dunlap
Screw propeller: Robert Wilson
Tarmac: McAdams
Lighthouse: Stevenson brothers
Bridges: Thomas Telford
Steam engine: James Watt
Napiers Bones, logarithms, decimal     notation: John Napier

Andrew Carnige

Any names seem familier?
And last but notleast is the ship and Scotch -Cutty Sark. 
So there..